---
title: "Dhruv Nathawani"
category: "people"
role: "Research Scientist"
company: "Nvidia"
linkedin: "https://www.linkedin.com/in/dhruvnathawani/"
sourceLabels: ["Official speaker roster", "Official conference schedule"]
---
# Dhruv Nathawani

## Profile
Research Scientist at [[nvidia|Nvidia]].

- [LinkedIn](https://www.linkedin.com/in/dhruvnathawani/)

## Biography
Dhruv Nathawani is a Research Scientist at NVIDIA, where he works at the intersection of synthetic data and foundation model alignment. His work focuses on building data-centric methods that improve the reliability, adaptability, and performance of Nemotron foundation models and modern AI systems. Prior to NVIDIA, Dhruv was at Gretel, a synthetic data platform for developers, where he worked on tools for generating high-quality data for AI applications. At Salesforce Research, Apple Maps, and Carnegie Mellon University, Dhruv built AI systems spanning medical multimodal learning, document AI/OCR, satellite computer vision, and fMRI-based cognitive decoding.

## Conference Sessions
- [[2026-06-29-dhruv-nathawani-teaching-agents-to-search-building-synthetic-training-pipelines-with-nvidia-data-designer]] — Teaching Agents to Search: Building Synthetic Training Pipelines with NVIDIA Data Designer (2026-06-29, 11:05am-12:05pm)

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### Linked Sessions
- [[2026-06-29-dhruv-nathawani-teaching-agents-to-search-building-synthetic-training-pipelines-with-nvidia-data-designer|Teaching Agents to Search: Building Synthetic Training Pipelines with NVIDIA Data Designer]]

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